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  1. It would be a lot more convenient if I could place the toolbar on the side of the screen so I could easily reach it with my non-writing hand.

    19 votes

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  2. To utilise the new elements feature it would be great if we would be able to import or export elements sets. This would be great for digital sticker sets you buy from Etsy or similar places, so you do not have to import each sticker individually.

    12 votes

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  3. The new flash card feature is terrific! Thank you! I have been a Anki user for a long time because of their image occlusion add on. It allows you to make a flash card from any image, which has been super useful to increase productivity and minimize time spent making cards. Anki did not have a convenient draw function. Goodnotes has solved that problem for me.

    A easy fix would be a solid fill in the shape tool. This would allow image occlusion and make the flash card template unstoppable. I know dental and medical students would really appreciate this…

    22 votes

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  4. Why not add a ruler and/or a virtual protractor to GoodNotes, it would be so much more practical to do graphs, draw vectors etc... because at the moment there is no precise tool.
    (For example, there is a virtual rule on the Notes app on iOS).

    PS : A compass could also be useful but less important than the rule and the protractor which are ESSENTIAL!

    65 votes

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  5. Ich würde gerne Videos oder Links von Videos einfügen und anklicken können.

    14 votes

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  6. Customise the Apple pencil double tap to change pen thickness between pre-set values or colour pen while writing

    4 votes

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  7. I want the option to be able to go to a different page and then click a 'back button' to whatever page I was on previously (within the same notebook). This would be really helpful since some of my notebooks are really long, and sometimes I just want to check something out on a different page and then go back to the page I was previously on. It takes me a long time to scroll all the way back to the page, so this would be very helpful :)

    12 votes

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  8. A “stamp tool”:
    This would allow users to natively create stamps of their own design using existing GoodNotes tools like shapes AND/OR import photos or shapes that can be added to an internal library of shapes to be used over and over. See below for functionality.

    User draws or writes something.
    User selects the object with stamp tool.
    The stamp tool saves the object into “library or repository of object.”
    User can “stamp” the object repeatedly.

    This is like the objects library in illustrator. You could have an “object selector tool” to select the items that go into the library.…

    12 votes

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  9. 1 vote

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  10. how can i import notability files and still be able to edit my handwritten notes?

    1 vote

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  11. It would be great if one could use the lasso tool between pages instead of having to copy and paste to move notes/images from one page to another.

    22 votes

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  12. Ich benutze GoodNotes für mein Studium und es wäre eine hilfreiche Funktion wenn man die Gliederung von Notizbüchern einrücken bzw. in ein- und ausklappbare Ordner Sortieren könnte. So würde vor allem die Navigation und Übersichtlichkeit von besonders langen Notizbüchern verbessert werden.

    3 votes

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  13. I would love to use a Goodnotes' planner, but there is one obstacle in the way for me, since reminders and events in those planners are not recognised by operating system.
    I would love to have the option to sync those event/reminder information within Calendar and Reminders apps. So when I plan something (maybe within a special text field) into my planner, the event/reminder would be mirrored in those apps.

    It would be even greater if it could go the other way as well - for the Reminders app: check in Reminders app = checks in Goodnotes but I am…

    12 votes

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  14. A highlighter with a straight edge instead of just the circular one.

    12 votes

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  15. Please add an undo button on Mac, it annoys me to have to be careful all the time because there is not an undo button for some reason.

    2 votes

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  16. すぐに使えるペンのカラーは、3つ設定できるが、5色ほど配置できるようにしてほしい。

    2 votes

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  17. Mac app is slow for large PDFs, as a person who studies a pdf on the MacBook and takes notes on the iPad, the Mac app is quite slow to navigate through the PDF. I'm running the latest app on the MacBook Pro 16

    6 votes

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  18. When replying to an e-mail, it's useful to be able to attach a document from GoodNotes. This is different from exporting a GoodNotes document by e-mail from inside GoodNotes, which creates a new e-mail.

    A possible workflow could be: receive an e-mail with a PDF attachment to review -> export the PDF to GoodNotes for signature / annotating -> reply to the e-mail and attach the annotated PDF.

    Currently, it's possible to use Mail.app and GoodNotes in split screen, and drag a GoodNotes document to an e-mail reply. However, that seems to be restricted to Mail.app. Other mail apps don't…

    1 vote

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  19. I'd really like a way to set up Outlines for our notebooks so that each section has its own subsection. The subsection would be linked altogether (e.g., Chapter 1 is one, Chapter 2 is another, etc.)

    That way, we could more easily drag and drop to reorder things in our notebook instead of having to tediously do each slide one-by-one!

    5 votes

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  20. When I move files the top most view of my folder structure is displayed, on whichever sublevel my file currently is saved. It would be helpful to open all folders in the current path so it is easier to see where exactly the file is currently saved as well as to save it on a folder higher in the current tree.

    3 votes

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